#Ancient

Andrewid

andrewidy

The humble colocasi, a type of taro &known officially as colocasia esculenta, may not be so humble after all. It’s one of oldest cultivated crops perhaps being grown whilst rice

Retro Report

RetroReport

It's time for another #LessonsFromHistory twitter thread!1/5 Could #Covid19 change the ancient way we greet one another? Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases,

adam x kuhn

mostlyadam

i sometimes think about that scene in that movie 300 where xerxes is talking to leonidas and threatens to erase sparta from memory and that it would be like it

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Elf_of_Shiva_

#Thread || Aeronautics || Ancient India was not only a land of philosophy and religion but also a fertile ground for science and technology. Many great sages authored vast literature

Ekaterine Xia

KatjeXia

So, we're gonna discuss 名 míng 字 żi 號 hào, as pertains to my understanding of it according to my area of romancelandia/wuxia/Taiwan conventional SFFR usage, okay?All the qualifiers because

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

The more I think about it the more I think @AlexandraErin is rightIt's not that it's impossible to keep on feeding people and keep "the economy" going while everyone is

Movie Mango ®

Go_Movie_Mango

The Big Scandal of Indology ! Almost all you have in academic textbooks about ancient India is either a superficial, banal, half-truth or plain wrong. Why we want to try

mirrorball

wtfjalajg

Kangana Ranaut as goddesses; an empowering thread... Flora; Roman goddess of flowers and of the season of spring. Artemis; Greek goddess of the hunt and the wilderness. Fortuna; Roman goddess

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hathyogi31

#Thread on Kashi Vishwanath temple: built, destroyed, rebuild, demobilised, captured and claimedThe Kashi Vishwanath is among the 12 jyotirlinga, situated in kashi (Varanasi) is not only a sacred place but

Simcha Gross

Simcha_Gross

A thread on Jewish incantations, rituals, and anxieties, related to memory in late antiquity and the early medieval period. 1/24 There were two main incantations for improved memory and learning

Sarah Ruth Ashcraft

SaRaAshcraft

Someone just asked me "Who are the #Hivites?" Ansewer: All of the terrorists in the entire world, including ISIS & Antifa, and every deep state ever, are part of an

Reaver

agereaver

So here's a #StarWars thread - ready to bring the hate?! My kids have been watching all of the #StarWars movies and animated content, they started with the Clone Wars

Tom Hart

tomxhart

1. Spengler in space | Russians have cosmonauts and Americans have astronauts: that's the difference between a Faustian civilisation and a new culture with a Faustian overlay. Cosmos suggests a

Rewilding Science

RewildingS

1/16 Can you reconstruct past communities from coprolites (fossilized poo)? Yes you can! Our next #RewildingScience study looks at the community structure and feeding ecology of extinct moas from New

The Punisher

PunishDem1776

This is WarSecret SocietiesKnow your EnemyWho rules the world?Secret Societies goes back to ancient times, most with one common goal. Order of the Quest, The JASON society, The Cabala, The

William Alex Kiss

WilliamAlexKiss

A thread.American today is often compared to Rome in its final days.However, a comparison we don't see often enough is the treatment of conservatives in 2021 and to what took